[debhelper-devel] [Git][debian/debhelper][master] Lower the version restrictions on dpkg and dpkg-dev

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Mattia Rizzolo pushed to branch master at Debian / debhelper


Commits:
00acc47d by Mattia Rizzolo at 2018-04-04T20:19:52+02:00
Lower the version restrictions on dpkg and dpkg-dev

They are not needed anymore, as R³ support is not implied anymore, but
requires an environment variable to be passed.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>

- - - - -


2 changed files:

- debian/changelog
- debian/control


Changes:

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debian/changelog
=====================================
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ debhelper (11.1.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * dh_installxfonts: Fix typo that causes a misc:Depends on
     non-existing xfont-utils.  (Closes: #894835)
 
+  [ Mattia Rizzolo ]
+  * Lower the version restrictions on dpkg and dpkg-dev.  They are not
+    needed anymore, as R³ support is not implied anymore, but requires
+    an environment variable to be passed.
+
  -- Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>  Wed, 04 Apr 2018 05:14:35 +0000
 
 debhelper (11.1.6) unstable; urgency=medium


=====================================
debian/control
=====================================
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ Section: devel
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers <debhelper at packages.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>,
-Build-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.19.0.5~),
-               dpkg-dev (>= 1.19.0.5~),
+Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.18.0~),
                perl:any,
                po4a,
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
@@ -25,9 +24,9 @@ Depends: autotools-dev,
 # without several bugs.  The constraint can be relaxed if an older
 # version is sufficient.
          dh-strip-nondeterminism (>= 0.028~),
-# Rules-Requires-Root support.  Otherwise it stops at 1.18.0/1.18.2 for dbgsym support.
-         dpkg (>= 1.19.0.5~),
-         dpkg-dev (>= 1.19.0.5~),
+# dbgsym support landed in 1.18.0, 1.18.2 fixes a related nasty bug.
+         dpkg (>= 1.18.0~),
+         dpkg-dev (>= 1.18.2~),
          file (>= 3.23),
          libdpkg-perl (>= 1.17.14),
 # makefile.pm uses -O which according to #768791 requires make (>= 4~).



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